If you need something per-user and you can live with the limitations about what icons/shortcuts you can place, you may want to look at ClickOnce.
-----Original Message----- From: Sanjay Poria [mailto:sanjay.po...@xanalys.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:11 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Creating MSI for non admin user I have been tasked with writing a installer for an .NET application (consisting of a few DLLs and an exe) such that I can install it for a user that does not have admin rights. Presumably this means doing a per-user install of the application. I simply need to install the application files and create a desktop/start menu shortcuts for the user. In addition, the application is based on .NET 3.5 so I will need to detect if it already installed on the machine, and if not, install it (or tell the user how to do it). Does anyone see any potential problems/issues here? Are there any guidelines about how to do a per user install (eg, things like "Install app files to location X", create shortcuts in location 'Y' etc.)? What is the easiest/standard way to deal with the .NET framework installation issue? Do I need admin rights to even detect whether the correct version is already installed? I did try googling around for answers to some of these (there is a load of stuff out there) but I couldn't find anything that answers my basic questions. I apologise if these questions come up again and again. Thanks sanjay ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
